Here are some of the file names, if you can't view the image for some reason:
/?%98%DE%FF%FB%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%A0
/%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%FF%DA%FF%FB%FF%FF%FF%A0
/%D4%DE%FF%FB%FF%FF%FFq%D9%FF%FB%FF%FF%FF
/B87571A5-45B3-4811-A035-3B592F1CE296

Anyone have any ideas? I can't help but be curious about these things. My root directory used to be nice and tidy; only "Applications", "Library", "System", "Users"... Now I feel like I'm running Windows or something with all this random crap there...

mds is spotlight and private is a system folder so leave those. They should be hidden though. You can hide them using the terminal:

chflags hidden /mds
chflags hidden /private

The files with odd names shouldn't exist so you can just delete them. The B875... looks like a serial code. They may have been files dumped by an application installation or something, maybe a system crash.

mds is spotlight and private is a system folder so leave those. They should be hidden though. You can hide them using the terminal:

chflags hidden /mds
chflags hidden /private

The files with odd names shouldn't exist so you can just delete them. The B875... looks like a serial code. They may have been files dumped by an application installation or something, maybe a system crash.

Thanks! I deleted the files and it didn't seem to affect my system (whew!) I managed to hide the mds folder too, but the private one wouldn't hide. It said I didn't have permission to do it...